Abstract
Background
To comprehensively evaluate the efficacy and safety of Retzius sparing (RS) for men undergoing robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RARP).
Methods
We searched four electronic databases and reference lists of relevant studies for eligible research published before March 11, 2019. After quality assessment, eligible studies were synthesized for relevant outcomes, including positive surgical margin (PSM), continence, incontinence, complication, console time, and hospital stay.
Results
Two randomized clinical trials and four observational studies were included in this study. Quantitative syntheses revealed significantly higher PSM rates in RS-RARP compared with conventional RARP (c-RARP) (odds ratio [OR] 1.68, p = 0.02). Furthermore, we found significantly higher PSM rates at the anterior site in RS-RARP compared with c-RARP (OR 4.34, p = 0.03) and significantly lower incontinence rates in RS-RARP in the first month (OR 0.30, p < 0.001) and 12th month (OR 0.25, p < 0.001).
Conclusions
Our syntheses revealed higher PSM rates in the RS-RARP group, especially in the anterior aspect. However, RS-RARP had superior functional outcome of urinary continence and lower console time than did c-RARP with equivalent complication rates. Thus, we suggest that operators pay more attention to making clear surgical margins if the lesion is in anterior prostate when performing RS-RARP.
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Abbreviations
- CI:
-
Confidence interval
- c-RARP:
-
Conventional robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy
- MD:
-
Mean difference
- OR:
-
Odds ratio
- RS-RARP:
-
Retzius space-sparing robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy
- SD:
-
Standard deviation
- SE:
-
Standard error
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TET conceptualized the study, screened the full text of the included studies, extracted the data, critically appraised the studies, drafted the manuscript, and approved the final manuscript; CCW interpreted the results, supervised the study, and approved the final manuscript; YNK designed the study, systematically searched the literature, screened the citations, extracted and analyzed the data, interpreted the results, drafted and critically revised the manuscript, and approved the final manuscript. JCW screened the full text of the included studies, checked the data, supervised the study, critically revised the manuscript, and approved the final manuscript.
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Tai, TE., Wu, CC., Kang, YN. et al. Effects of Retzius sparing on robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy: a systematic review with meta-analysis. Surg Endosc 34, 4020–4029 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-019-07190-2
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